Alternative spellings

Jeremy Bentham often used alternative, unusual, or idiosyncratic spellings in his writings. This page lists some spellings that you may encounter in the manuscripts. This list will become a resource for other users, so feel free to edit this page, adding any alternative spellings that you have met in the course of your transcription work.

A-F

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acknowlege administer'd admitt alledge answer'd assurtains auther/ authors autrescorps ax bindes burthen causeaicun characteristick cheif chuse cloaths / cloathes / cloathed colors committ compacts

compleat comprized connexion consider'd controul councetions defeazance denuntiation depretiation desception divers / diverts draught

encrease enterd/ entere'd enterprize enuntiation equiample essentiel expence falshood farther fixt follow'd forbiden fulfill

G-L

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• guaranty

• gulph

• harbor

• imprest

• incumbrance

• innevitable

• intelligencies

• irreconcileable

• intituled

• it's

• jealosy

• labor

• ligislature

• linnen /linnens

M-R

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• maqest

• mean while

• mear/ meer/ meerly

• mechanisim

• misdemeanors/ misdemesnors

• mith

• mixt

• murder'd

• natâ

• neighboring

• obey'd

• obuse

• oeconomy

• occurr(s)

• obbligation

• percieve

• plaid

• polution

• Popish

• possesst

• preexisting

• pretious

• propos'd

• propperly

• publickly

• register'd

• remdying

• render'd

• repugnancis

• Romish

S-Z

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• savory

• scatter'd

• seemd/ seem'd

• shew / shews / shewn/ shewed

• signifys

• sollicitor

• somthing

• submitt

• subtilty

• tell

• tho'

• to

• traffick

• tythes

• tranquillity

• tyed

• untill

• Vice roys

• vitious

• whither

• withold

• worde